Technical Question about Modern Human "Natural Selection" | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 154126 United States 05/11/2007 09:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | dude if you cant figure out that the smarter fitter animal will out provide a dumber weaker animal, attracting more sexual partners leading to more sexual success leading to more offspring, meaning that this individual has a larger influence on the species than other lesser males. like 200 years from now more humans will favor myself than you, simply because my offspring will out do yours and get more sex....(cause they will be smarter and fitter) |
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Oh dang....bored 'em, (OP) User ID: 233966 United States 05/12/2007 01:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
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equally boring (OP) User ID: 233966 United States 05/12/2007 02:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanks! The topic flows under all our conversations about policy, yet is not well developed in science. This explains why everyone else's opinions are usually rubbish -- because, while subjective points of view have validity, no highly developed objective system has yet been circulating in science. |
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not so (OP) User ID: 233966 United States 05/12/2007 10:22 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
dems fiten words! (OP) User ID: 233966 United States 05/14/2007 12:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | like 200 years from now more humans will favor myself than you, simply because my offspring will out do yours and get more sex....(cause they will be smarter and fitter) Quoting: Anonymous Coward 154126This is so far off course that it's not even wrong. More like "mis-stated." |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 154126 United States 05/15/2007 10:15 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | like 200 years from now more humans will favor myself than you, simply because my offspring will out do yours and get more sex....(cause they will be smarter and fitter) Quoting: dems fiten words! 233966This is so far off course that it's not even wrong. More like "mis-stated." have you ever tried for a darwin award? go jump off something really high, im sure you can fly... |
Darwin: slender, redhaired Ang (OP) User ID: 233966 United States 05/16/2007 01:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
Colonel Clusterfuck
User ID: 237312 United States 05/16/2007 02:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From my limited understanding, evolution is a slow process. Thus to study the actual process of evolution implies looking at the fossil record over millions of years. If I understand you correctly, by "modern human evolution" you mean what is actually happening to the human species right now. To do this, we would need to make observations of the human form and genome both now and millions of years from now. That does not seem practical. The only thing we can do is make guesses about the evolutionary pressures facing humans, and extrapolate. However, with no way to test our extrapolations (hypotheses), this effort would fall short of science, in any strict sense. |
Colonel Clusterfuck
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Y I S (OP) User ID: 233966 United States 05/16/2007 02:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | From my limited understanding, evolution is a slow process. Thus to study the actual process of evolution implies looking at the fossil record over millions of years. Quoting: Colonel ClusterfuckIf I understand you correctly, by "modern human evolution" you mean what is actually happening to the human species right now. To do this, we would need to make observations of the human form and genome both now and millions of years from now. That does not seem practical. The only thing we can do is make guesses about the evolutionary pressures facing humans, and extrapolate. However, with no way to test our extrapolations (hypotheses), this effort would fall short of science, in any strict sense. I agree about 98 percent with this. I observe that what you said shows most statements people make about human evolution are without a scientific basis (and people make a LOT of them). The other two percent is for folks that work hard enough, are smart enough, and honest enough, and doggone it, people like them. Thanks for the funny film too! ! ! |